Biography

The Vienna-based Danish-German conductor, composer/orchestrator, and pianist, Bernhard Melbye Voss, made his conducting debut with the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra with a Danish program at the Wiener Musikverein. Driven by his passion for film music, he is working as a session conductor for film music productions at the internationally acclaimed Synchron Stage Vienna, where he has been conducting for Lucas Films, Netflix, Disney, Marvel, DC Comics, Paramount, AMC, Warner, HBO, Amazon Studios, BBC, Legendary Studios, Skydance, MGM, Sony, Hulu, Dharma Productions, Tencent, Blizzard, ActiVision, ByteDance, NetEase, EA, Apple Arcade and worked with many of the worlds greatest film music composers from Hollywood to Bollywood. In addition to his work as a session conductor, he works as an orchestrator for film music and has been guest lecturing on scoring session techniques and film music at the Konrad Wolf Film University Babelsberg. With a profound interest in languages, the relation between music and languages, and in the linguistic features of music, he has also worked extensively with opera. After finishing his conducting studies at the University of Music and performing Arts, Vienna, he continued his studies of Italian opera in Rome with a scholarship awarded by the Foundation of Queen Ingrid of Denmark. Besides working with several European orchestras, he holds the position as chief conductor of the Valsassina Chamber Orchestra and the Symphonious Quest Orchestra. As a multi-facetted musician with experience in multiple styles of music, he has shared the stage with stars like Pritam, Arijit Singh, Shreya Goshal, Udit Narayan, Shaan, Lucky Ali, Neeti Mohan and many more . His pianistic focus on improvisation is based on his fascination with the similarities and connections between different cultures and styles of music. As a composer, he has chosen to work with a wide range of stylistic influences. In 2021 he conducted the world premiere of his first symphony on the main stage of the Donauinselfest, Vienna.